"Ladder" rank is the major pool from which division chairs and other top administrators are hired.
Of the nine participants selected, three were District Executives, and three were Division Chairs, there was one Director, one Executive Director, one Team Leader, and two of these were also members of Clinical Councils.
VIPs included Supt./President John Davitt and wife Gael Davitt; retiring Jane Di Lucchio, division chair of Continuing Education Business and Life Skills; and current Division Chair Elizabeth Fremgen.
Prior to joining Cornell Tech, van Ryzin was on the faculty of Columbia Business School and served as division chair of the Decision, Risk and Operations Division from 2010-2015.
He was also a division chair at the 2005 APSA Annual meetings in Washington DC.
He has also served as the division chair for the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the Academy of Management.
In the EECS department, Liu served as department chair from 2014 to 2016, EE division chair from 2012 to 2016, and vice chair for graduate matters from 2003 to 2004.
This is the latest event in a timeline that begins on 21 October, when the publisher announced it was creating a new eSports competitive video game division chaired by former ESPN CEO Steve Bornstein and senior vice president Mike Sepso of MLG.
This year's awardees are Tyrone Hayes, associate professor of integrative biology; Usha Jain, a senior lecturer of Hindi language and literature; Jeffrey Knapp, associate professor of English; Leslie Kurke, associate professor of classics and comparative literature; and Stephen Welter, professor and division chair of insect biology.
Upon returning to Caltech, he served as the division chair (dean) of Engineering and Applied Science from 2000 to 2005, the director for Information Science and Technology from 2006 to 2009, and interim division chair from 2008 to 2009.
* Having previously served as a faculty member, a division chair, and an academic administrator, Dr. Trower is currently a researcher at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
